Rainer Werner Fassbinder died as he lived: at many frames per second. The cinephile’s errand of trying to watch everything the German filmmaker made in his lifetime, from all 10 hours of “Berlin ...

The acclaimed German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder would have turned 70 this year, on May 31. To celebrate this landmark anniversary, the Deutsches Filmmuseum, in collaboration with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In voiceover, Thomsen talks about meeting Fassbinder at the Berlinale following the screening of “Love Is Colder Than Death,” ...

New York offers a cornucopia of essential movie classics, and today another great series gets under way: the first installment of a nearly complete retrospective of the films of Rainer Werner ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of Lili Marleen (1980) Photo: Museum of Modern Art, 1996 If Godard imagined film as truth at 24 frames a second, for Fassbinder it was one take at a time. Notorious ...

A recent exhibition at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt, oriented around the work of writer, director and producer Rainer Werner Fassbinder, provided a unique opportunity to consider the still ...

A year before his tragic death in 1982, German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder — the cinema outlaw poet whose filmography included over 40 films and the epic TV mini-series “World on a Wire” and ...

The style and sensibility of a documentary are inseparable from its substance. The way that filmmakers present information reveals their point of view regarding that information, and even regarding ...

RAINER Werner Fass binder was at the peak of his artistic powers when, on June 10, 1982, he was found dead of a drug overdose in his Munich apartment, a cigarette still between his lips. He was just ...

In “Ali,” the woman is an older widow, but unlike Wyman or Moore, she is a dumpy, wrinkled cleaning lady; the younger man is a hunky, decades-younger Moroccan “guest worker” who barely speaks German.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed 41 films and was a major figure in the German cinema from the late 1960s until his death from a drug overdose at the age of 37 in June 1982. A serious study of his ...

Fassbinder friend and devotee Christian Braad Thomsen takes a Freudian lens to the life and career of the seminal filmmaker. If ever a helmer opened himself to Freudian interpretation, it was Rainer ...